Amazon.com Electronics Store Will Sell SanDisk Memory Cards and Card Readers.SUNNYVALE Sunnyvale, city (1990 pop. 117,229), Santa Clara co., W Calif., near San Francisco; settled 1849, inc. 1912. A city in Silicon Valley, its many manufactures include semiconductors; machinery and instruments; electrical, electronic, and aerospace products; , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 30, 1999-- SanDisk This article is about SanDisk Corporation. For Computer Storage Device in Storage Area Network (SAN), see Storage Area Network. SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), formerly SunDisk Corporation (Nasdaq:SNDK) announced today that the new Amazon.com (Amazon.com, Seattle, WA, www.amazon.com) The largest online shopping site and one of the most widely known e-commerce sites on the Web. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995, it had 11 employees by year's end. Within four years, it had more than 1,600 employees and four million customers. Electronics Store will sell SanDisk products as accessories to a wide range of consumer electronics devices including digital cameras, Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the music players and palm-sized PCs. The Amazon.com Electronics Store began selling SanDisk CompactFlash(TM) (CF(TM)), MultiMediaCard, SmartMedia(TM) and ImageMate(TM) products today. "Amazon.com is one of the most popular e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. web sites because it is on the cutting-edge of e-commerce," said Rick Dyer, vice president of retail sales at SanDisk. "We believe that Amazon.com will successfully link SanDisk to the MP3 market as well as increase awareness of SanDisk's wide range of products for the digital imaging and handheld PC  An editor has expressed concern that this article or section is .Please help improve the article by adding information and sources on neglected viewpoints, or by summarizing and markets due to their customer profile of early adopters." CompactFlash memory cards are currently used as photo film cards in over 100 announced digital camera models and as additional memory expansion in more than 60 new handheld PCs. Using SanDisk's ImageMate, consumers have a complete solution for transferring images or data stored on CF cards to the desktop PC or Mac with ease and efficiency. The SanDisk MultiMediaCard is currently being used as storage for digitally compressed MP3 music in more than 35 new portable internet music players. SanDisk Corporation, the world's largest supplier of flash data storage products, designs, manufactures and markets industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented, high density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale. Note to Editors: CompactFlash, CF and ImageMate are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation. SmartMedia is a trademark of Toshiba Corporation (company) Toshiba Corporation - A Japanese technology manufacturer with 364 subsidiaries worldwide. Toshiba makes and sells electronics for home, office, industry and health care including information and communication systems, electronic components, heavy electrical apparatus, . SanDisk's web site/home page address: http://www.sandisk.com. Amazon.com web site/home page address: http://www.amazon.com. |
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